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Stefano Mulinari

Moses Smashing the Tablets

Title:	Moses Smashing the Tablets
Engraver:	Mulinari, Stefano (Florence, 1741 - c. 1795)
Designer:	Da Cento, Guercino
Date:	c. 1780
Medium:	Original Etching and Aquatint in Sepia
Note:	Stefano Mulinari: An eighteenth century Italian engraver, Stefano Mulinari studied printmaking techniques under A. Scacciati. He then worked as an assistant to this master, engraving a series of plates based upon old master drawings in the Florentine Collection. This series consisted of one hundred plates. Upon the death of Scacciati, Mulinari completed the remaining sixty engravings by himself and secured a strong reputation for his art, which combined etching, engraving and aquatinting, usually in sepia tones.
	Mulinari devoted himself to engraving drawings from the Italian Renaissance. In 1775 he published a set of fifty engravings dealing with the art of the earliest masters. This was followed in 1780 by a series depicting the paintings and drawings of the great Italian schools, entitled, Saggio delle cinque Scuole di Pittura Italiana. Moses Smashing the Tablets may possibly be from this last named portfolio.
	Outstanding etchings after the designs of Leonardo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Parmigiano and Guercino were created by Mulinari. In total, Stefano Mulinari published over two hundred original etchings, including thirteen based upon the drawings of Guercino.
Raisonne:	G. K. Nagler, Neus allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, Leipzig, Schwarzenburg & Schumann, Vol. 11, p. 121.
	Nagler, Catalogue #165. First and Only State.
Size:	10 3/4 X 10 3/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted With 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon thick 18th century laid paper and with margins extending about one inch from the actual etching on all sides. Signed by the artist within the plate along the lower margin. Bearing a crease mark (caused by the pressure of the initial printing) in the upper right margin as well as a marginal tear, which does not intrude into the actual etching, else a brilliant sepia impression and in good condition throughout. Moses Smashing the Tablets represents a prime, original example of the eighteenth century etched art of Stefano Mulinari.
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